User:Wikicre8r/sandbox5
| Wikicre8r/sandbox5 | |
|---|---|
| Mission statement | Promote R&D partnerships between NASA and the private sector pertaining to dual-use technologies and to precompetitive, commercially valuable technologies with industry-wide application. [1] |
| Type of project | Pilot Project: Management Policy and Implementation |
| Products | Policy and Implementation Guides for Cost-Shared Partnerships, Fifteen (15) Projects |
| Location | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Owner | NASA HQ, Commercial Technology Organization (CTO) |
| Key people | Kevin Barquinero, NASA HQ
Syed Shariq, NASA Ames Steven Gomes, AmTech, Inc. |
| Established | 1989 |
| Disestablished | 1996 |
Summary
[edit]The Joint Sponsored Research Program (JRSP) was a NASA-wide management initiative to "... to establish a pilot program for Joint Sponsored Research Projects. Under this Program, the Agency may jointly fund with private sector entities technology research and development activities that further the Agency's goals and missions." [2][3], The policy goals were to accelerate technology development, maintain U.S. technological leadership, foster U.S. economic growth and competitiveness, and create jobs.[4]
The Program was initiated by the NASA Ames Research Center with a management charter to design and institutionalize business models, including legal authorities, to undertake cost-sharing, public/private partnerships to provide the agency with cost-savings, improved technology transfer and accelerated supply chain development.[5] The Program was launch in 1989 and completed seventeen (17) pilot project partnerships that generated $41.7 Million in cost savings by 1995 and produced NASA policy, partnership models and project implementation guidance before concluding in 1996.[6] Partnership agreements initiated by the JSR Program continued through 2005.[7]
Objectives
[edit]The Program had five (5) objectives:[8]
- Partnering Process: Develop a partnering process that works within NASA and for private sector
- Legal Agreement Instrument: Develop a model legal agreement that can be customized to prospective NASA and industry partner needs
- Pilot Projects: Form projects to test level of demand and process
- Results: Measure results to apply the process and form projects
- Conclusions: Draw conclusions about what does and doesn't work
History
[edit]The Program was proposed in 1987 by the Chief legal counsel of the NASA Ames Research Center, Mr. Jack Glazer, as one response to the Reagan administration's policy directing NASA to define and implement space commercialization.[9] NASA created a Space Commercialization Task Force in 1983 with the directive to develop an.... "agency-wide policy and integrated program plan for enhancing NASA's ability to encourage and be responsive to commercialization endeavors. The Task Force's recommendations included..."evaluate the feasibility of new commercial partnership structures, including intellectual property, cost-sharing agreements.[10] The Chief legal counsel at the NASA Ames Research Center, Mr. Jack Glazer, had previously used the Center level delegated authority to engage in small scale partnerships using funded Space Act Agreements with the intent to establish policies and procedures for cost-sharing R&D agreements.[11][12]
The Program was organized to design, test and implement cost-sharing partnerships using Space Act Authority in phases subject to oversight at NASA Ames and Headquarters: [13]
- 1987-1989: Prototype project explored and implemented, reported at NAS Ames
- 1989: Senior NASA management briefed on results, NASA JSR Program formed
- 1990: Conditional funded Space Act Authority provided to negotiate 2-3 JSR projects
- 1991: JSR Program results reported; conditional authority expanded to 4 structured projects and 10 prospects approved for conversion to JSR agreements
- 1992-1994: Administrator delegates authority to sign JSR Agreements; JSR Program objective to fully test program potential per delegation
- 1994-1995: NASA funding of industry-led R&D consortia; delegation of authority to field installations; JSR Program Advisory Team (PAT) oversight and process established for agency-wide implementation; expanded scope to all partnership types and commercialization with focus on NASA Ames only
[1] NASA Joint Sponsored Research Program: Status Report, Use of Space Act Authority to Develop Joint Sponsored Research Projects and Industry-Led R&D Consortia (1988-1995), May 31, 1995
Program Requirements
[edit]The Program authorized use of Space Act Authority for NASA to enter into JSR Agreements on the condition that..."A JSR Project (must) develop and commercialize dual-use technology as well as be likely to result in at least one of the following outcomes:
A. leverage the cost of technology development between NASA and the private sector
B. enhancement of U.S. industry's competitive position in the global marketplace
C. conversion of aerospace or defense technology to commercial application."[14]
Partner Requirements
[edit]The Program created nine (9) requirements for prospective partners, based on the principle that cost-shared partnerships utilizing Space Act Authority (SAA) must first demonstrate that all other forms of NASA business agreements could not meet the Agency's strategic and mission objectives for any given project. [15]
Joint Sponsored Research Agreement (JSRA)
[edit]The Program created model partnership, cost-sharing, legal agreements utilizing Space Act Authority...:..authorized by the (NASA) Administrator's Delegation of Authority for Joint Sponsored Research Project for Technology Transfer and Commercialization..", original authorization March 31, 1992, renewed February 1994".[16] The model JSR Agreements included provisions for:[17]
- R&D Performance
- Participant Criteria
- Funding with Cost Sharing Requirements
- Accounting and Audit Requirements
- Overhead Rate(s) Guidelines
- In-Kind Resources Valuation and Verification
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Commercialization Performance.
The JSRA was adopted as one of NASA's partnering business agreement models by the Agency's Innovative Partnership Program (IPP).[18]
Leadership, Management and Expertise
[edit]The Program was managed by the Deputy Directors of the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) reporting to the NASA Headquarters Technology Commercialization Office (TCO).[18) Technical monitors were assigned by the NASA Ames Research center along with a business adoption team was formed at the Ames Research Center including specialists from contracts, cooperative agreements, intellectual property, finance, personnel, facilities, operations, project management and technology transfer.[2] The program was administered through a Cooperative Agreement that funded a non-profit organization, American Technology Initiative, chartered to accelerate American technology development and commercialization.19
Management Guidelines Completed
[edit]The Program administrative professionals generated one-hundred seventy-eight (178) JSR project proposals leading to negotiation signing and
administration of seventeen (17) cost sharing partnerships that saved NASA $41.7 Million dollars between the years 1988 and 1995. [1] The largest partnership, the AGATE Alliance, engaged an initial seventy-six (76) organizations.[19] The Program generated draft content adopted as NASA Policy Directives (NPD) and NASA II (NAII) for use in cost-shared, public/private technology partnerships for the purposes of cost savings and commercialization.[3]
The Program's policies, partnership models, legal templates, implementation guidelines were adopted for NASA's Policy Directives (NASA Management Instructions-NMI) to enter partnership agreements[20] and NASA Advisory Implementing Instructions for Partnerships[21] and Space Act Agreements[22] which were subsequently used as policy and procedure reference for use of the Agency's Space Act Authority for partnerships in NASA's COTS program in 2006[23], CCDev program in 2011, Tipping Point Opportunities[24] and Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity[25] initiatives.
See also:
[edit]Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments
NASA - Commercial Crew Program Essentials
External Links
[edit]NASA Authority to Enter Into Partnership Agrements: NASA Policy Directive
NASA Space Act Agreement Guide
NASA Advisory Implementing Instructions: Space Act Agreements
References
[edit]- ^ https://archive.org/details/nasa-jsr-program-information-package-march-1996_202504
- ^ Masson, Paul A. (2021). "SRI International's Role in Commercial Space Transportation: Designing NASA's Business Partnership Model for Commercializing Space" (PDF). SRI International Alumni Association: 14.
- ^ "NASA, Office of the Administrator, Delegation of Authority, Joint Sponsored Research Projects for Technology Transfer and Commercialization". Memorandum. March 31, 1993.
- ^ Masson, Paul A. (2021). "SRI International's Role in Commercial Space Transportation: Designing NASA's Business Partnership Model for Commercializing Space" (PDF). SRI International Alumni Association: 1.
- ^ NASA, Progress Status Report, Joint Sponsored Research Program, Presented to Mr. Arnold Aldrich February 5, 1991, Page 7
- ^ NASA, JSR Program, Project Status Report, March 1995, Pages 10-11
- ^ Masson, Paul A. (July 2005). "An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the AGATE Alliance Program Management Model". NASA.
- ^ "Management Report: NASA Joint Sponsored Research Program, Preliminary Report: Use of Space Act Authority to Develop Joint Sponsored Research Projects". November 12, 1993. p. 6.
- ^ Glazer, J. Henry (1987). "The Expanded Use Of Space Act Authority to Accelerate Space Commercialization Through Advanced Joint Enterprises Between Federal and Non-Federal Constituencies". Rutgers Computer And Tech Law Journal. 12 (2): 339–405.
- ^ Masson, Paul A. (August 2021). "SRI International's Role in Commercial Space Transportation: Designing NASA's Business Partnership Model for Commercializing Space". SRI International Alumni Newsletter: 12–16.
- ^ AmTech History, Research Product, Memorandum: David Lloyd, Principal Investigator to Maylene Duenas, Technical Monitor, NCC2-648
- ^ Glazer, J. Henry. "The Expanded Use Of Space Act Authority to Accelerate Space Commercialization Through Advanced Joint Enterprises Between Federal and Non-Federal Constituencies". Rutgers Computer And Tech Law Journal. 12 (2): 348.
- ^ NASA Joint Sponsored Research Program: Status Report: Use of Space Act Authority to Develop Joint Sponsored Research Projects and Industry-Led R&D Consortia
- ^ "National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Joint Sponsored Research Program Information Package". NASA: 2. March 1994.
- ^ "National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Joint Sponsored Research Program Information Package". NASA: 5–17. March 1994.
- ^ "Definitions, Joint Sponsored Research Agreement, JSR Program Information Package". NASA: 18, 4. 1994.
- ^ "National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Joint Sponsored Research Information Package". NASA: 9–15, 12–16. 1994.
- ^ "Technology Transfer: Bringing Innovation to NASA and the Nation". National Academy of Public Administration. November 2004.
- ^ "Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments".
- ^ "NASA Policy Directive, Authority to Enter into Partnership Agreements, NPD 1050.7A". NASA NODIS Library.
- ^ "NASA Advisory Implementing Instructions, NASA Partnerships Guide" (PDF).
- ^ "NASA Space Act Agreements Guide, NAII 1050-1D" (PDF).
- ^ "NASA Commerical Orbital Transportation Services: A New Era in Spaceflight". NASA COTS Program: 20 and 122. February 2014.
- ^ "NASA Offers Up to $200 Million to Push New Technologies to Market". February 15, 2022.
- ^ "NASA Selects 12 Companies to Collaborate on Key Technologies". April 25, 2023.